taken 9 years ago, near to Felthorpe, Norfolk, Great Britain

Birches beside the path

The soil here is very sandy. Houghen Plantation - a woodland consisting of sections of conifers alternating with birch and sweet chestnut trees, interspersed by the occasional ancient oak - borders onto St Faith's Common and the B1149 (Holt Road) in the northeast and onto Dole Plantation and Drayton Dewray in the southwest. The woodland offers a wide range of footpaths, cycle paths and horse rides. It is traversed by an ancient lane which links the public bridleway turning off Bilney Lane in the village of Felthorpe with Sandy Lane just north of the village of Horsford.